Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sapotaceae | Madhuca
2. Madhuca hainanensis Chun & How; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 7: 71. 1958.
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Trees 9--30 m tall. Bark dark grayish brown; rust colored and shining villous when young. Leaves often closely clustered at end of branches; stipules ca. 3 X 1 mm; tomentose; early deciduous; petiole 1.5--3 cm; gray tomentose; leaf blade oblong-obovate to oblong-oblanceolate; 6--12 X 2.5--4 cm; abaxially rust colored sericeous when young but glabrescent; adaxially glabrous and shiny; apex rounded and usually retuse; lateral veins 20--30 pairs; slender; and conspicuous. Flowers 1--3; axillary; nodding. Pedicel 2--3 cm; densely rust colored sericeous. Sepals elliptic to ovate-triangular; 1.5--8(--12) X 5.5--6.5 mm; both surfaces densely rust colored velutinous; apex obtuse. Corolla white; 1--1.2 cm; glabrous; 8--10-lobed. Stamens 28--30 in 3 whorls. Ovary ovoid-globose; rust colored sericeous; 6--8-locular. Style ca. 1.2 cm; base sericeous. Fruiting peduncle thick; 3--4.5 cm. Fruit greenish yellow; ovoid-globose to globose; 2.5--3 X 2--2.8 cm; pubescent; 1--5-seeded. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid; compressed; 2--2.5 X 0.8--1.2 cm; brown and shiny; scar elliptic. Fl. Jun-Sep; fr. Sep-Dec.
* Common in evergreen forest; ca. 100 m. Hainan